Blog series to teach and show off D's metaprogramming by creating a JSON serialiser

[Ethan]

On Friday, 1 November 2019 at 12:50:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> It's an alias, but what it's aliased to is a built-in type.

A *slice* of a built-in type *with qualifiers*.

The only way to simplify that description is to call it 
"syntactic sugar". "Built-in type" to describe the entire thing 
is only a half-truth.